Library News

Christmas/New Year closure

The Library will be unstaffed from Monday 23rd December 2024 to Friday 3rd January 2025 inclusive

Use your hospital ID to swipe for entry or exit on these days.

Contact us via email during this time at rch.library@rch.org.au.

"The Library Update": news, campus publications, latest additions to the Library collection

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• End of year wrap-up at the Library
• Book Swap: new titles available
• New Aluminations issue
• MJA Special Issue: call for papers
• Wellbeing and appreciation events
• Library Training: final sessions for 2024
• Renal Drug Database: access from CHC is discontinued has been restored
• IMPORTANT: EBSCOhost migration information
• Spotlight on Library Fact Sheet: No.3 Finding full text
• Nikon's Small World: Celebrating 50 years of images captured by the light microscope
• EndNote Tip: Edit or remove in-text citations in Word
• PLUS: 182 new Campus Publications; Health and Science News; and recently acquired books

EndNote

Get EndNote for your PC or Mac, for work or home. Register for Library Training in either a demonstration session or a hands-on beginner or intermediate session. See our EndNote tips for quick answers to common problems.

Accessing Library online resources while working from home

You can quickly register for an OpenAthens account to get remote access to Library resources from off-site. If you are already off-site be sure to use your work email address when registering.

MCRI access to RCH Library resources

MCRI staff may access RCH Library resources with an OpenAthens remote access account or from within the RCH computer network.

Top 50 Most-Cited Campus Publications

"Most-cited" is a widely used measure to determine an author's or institution's research output. We compiled our Top 50 list using Scopus, an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.

Stay current with Read by QxMD or BrowZine

Read by QxMD provides a single place for you to keep up with new research, topics of interest in your chosen specialties, and the latest articles from your favourite journals. Find out how you can get institutional access.

BrowZine is a journal platform aimed at keeping you up to date with the latest issues of all your favourite journals. It is fully integrated with the Library's journal database, which ensures you see only those titles where access is available.

Library Training

We offer sessions on EndNote, 'Finding the Evidence', Ovid Medline, Nursing & Allied Health resources, Cochrane Library, PubMed, as well as 'Introduction to the Library' sessions about accessing Library services and using the Library website. All training takes place online.

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